"Yichang, something happened. The imperial court suddenly ordered officials from all over the country to assist people in treating livestock diseases.
My officer... you have the most livestock in your village.
Can you write me a topic about raising livestock in the village and I can report it? "
Li Zhixian discussed with the village chief during lunch that he could not find any other suitable place except this Xiaqiu Village.
The key is that he doesn't know how. He can imagine that officials in other places will work hard to find people who understand livestock and bring such people to show livestock in other villages.
There are such people in Xuancheng County who specialize in looking after livestock for people at the livestock market.
It's just that Xiaqiu Village is even more powerful. After others see the animals shaking their heads, they buy them back at a low price and can cure them.
"It's not a problem in this village. Has Li Zhixian considered other villages and other counties in Ningguo Prefecture?"
The manager smiled and told the other party that it would be bad luck if he messed up his errands.
After he mentioned it, Li Zhixian showed a sad look: "It's a hard life! I have to take people to a nearby village."
"Don't wait, magistrate." The chief put down his chopsticks and stood up to go back to his house.
I came back soon and found an extra book in my hand. It was actually a book. It was quite thick. The paper was made of good paper and bound with thread.
He handed the book to Li Zhixian: "Here are some methods for the prevention and treatment of livestock diseases. You can order people to copy them and report them to the local authorities for guidance."
Li Zhixian received it and looked at the cover first, which read the words 'veterinary treatment'.
He flipped through it again, and after a few glances, he became immersed in it. The first thing he wrote was about military horses.
Zhu Wentian mixed the contents of the two books together, but first emphasized the use of military horses for fighting.
Seeing Li Zhixian's expression, the director felt very accomplished. He copied this book word for word, and Hanhan's original copy must be kept.
Hanhan would write a few pages, and then he would copy them, copy them over the next few days, and finally bind them into a book.
"County magistrate, why don't you eat first, then open it up and have more people copy it," the chief reminded, otherwise you'll be able to read it all night long.
"Yes, yes, eat, eat quickly." Li Zhixian urged the three county magistrates.
Everyone quickly shoveled food into their mouths and drank soup when they choked.
As a result, Zhu Wencai ate half of his meal, and the four officials put down their chopsticks and ran away.
He didn't come out of the room during dinner in the evening, so he went to call the mayor. The four people who were trying to copy separately said they were not hungry and asked him to prepare steamed buns.
"Hanhan, they won't eat. I guess they will have to write continuously at night and forget to eat and sleep!"
The village chief saw the dishes on the table and asked the village elder to come here.
"Soup, gravy, hey hey hey!" Zhu Wentian came up with the idea that eating steamed buns and drinking water would not work.
"Okay, give them soup, hehehe!"
The chief nodded and asked people to do it. This drink is fast and has salt.
The radish and tofu soup was served. It contained cucumber slices, egg droplets, and thousands of shredded shreds. It looked like it was marinated.
Made with perilla oil, you can drink it cold without being fishy.
In the evening, lanterns were hung in the room where officials collectively copied homework, using candlesticks to avoid burning the paper.
In the middle of the night, another bowl of soup was given to them, barley soup to wake up the spirit, a soup base of barley, pork essence, adzuki beans, atractylodes, astragalus, ginseng slices, and chicken and pork bones.
The officials drank it again and felt refreshed, so they continued copying.
At dawn, they finally finished copying a book together, and all of them had dark circles under their eyes.
They reordered the original ones first, and temporarily placed the ones they wrote in order. You need to take it back to the county and have it copied, but they won’t copy it again. It’s tiring!
Then they... go to the toilet.
When I came back, I washed my face and wrote two copies of the question book. One was to be sent to the palace, and the other was sent to the county seat to the prefect of Song Dynasty with the copied book.
When he was about to ask someone to send him away, the chief took out a letter, sealed it with lacquer, and asked him to take it to the palace.
Xiaqiu Village has always had this power, and the head of the village has never used it. This time, it won't work. The seal was sent from the palace.
As soon as Li Zhixian and others saw the seal of the fire paint, they knew that the matter was serious, and they did not dare to open it. Zhu Taisan and Zhu Taisi from the palace followed.
They brought a hundred portions of old duck soup to the place for lunch for the prince and his companions. The staple food was steamed buns, which were not afraid of falling off the bottom.
The four government servants finished their meal in a hurry and rushed to the county seat with two horses and one person to deliver the medical books quickly. I guess the government officials were also worried!
Li Zhixian and others washed their hands again and came to the enclosure where they had a big pot of rice. They were ready to go to bed after eating. They were too sleepy.
It's getting cold and it's cold to eat outside. We hold up pillars and surround them with a four-foot-high linen cloth to block the wind.
When the house is built, there will be a good place to eat a big pot of rice next winter.
The village will build a large canteen like a one-story warehouse with multiple doors, supported by iron bars, and broken old bamboos to lay a sloping roof.
The village also eats old duck soup, which is actually specially made for officials. Zhu Wentian is afraid that they will die suddenly.
Now that I have done it, I will make more and send it to the palace so that everyone can eat together.
"Yi Chang, that book on veterinary treatment can be passed down to the family."
After drinking the soup, Li Zhixian felt better. He talked about books. Good books. Whoever learned how to treat animals would not worry about their livelihood.
Just like the previous operation in the village, buying an animal that cannot be cured by others, even if you don't raise it yourself, can be cured and resold, which is still a lot of money.
In the end, it was just given out for nothing, and I didn’t ask for anything. Thinking about it, I feel a loss.
The lieutenant raised his head and smiled: "A thousand gold prescription has not been passed down from family to family, Shen Nong's Materia Medica has not been passed down from family to family, the Emperor's Nei Jing has not been passed down from family to family, and the Treatise on Typhoid and Miscellaneous Diseases has not been passed down from family to family.
There are many more, why don’t they keep them as heirlooms? We in Xiaqiu Village don’t want that heirloom. What we really want to inherit is to raise the village guardians. Is it silly? "
"Yeah! Hanhan, I, hey hey hey!" Zhu Wentian cooperated.
"Yichang is right." Li Zhixian was very surprised. I was praising an expert. Do you really think I was praising you?
The topics suddenly became less and less, they were in contact every day, and there wasn't much to talk about. Plus the four of them were sleepy, so they finished eating and went to bed quickly.
The chief took out the incense burner and lit some soothing incense. It contained frankincense and benzoin, which were very precious and imported.
This kind of lamp is usually reluctant to be used. It is only lit when someone in the village has trouble sleeping. There are several kinds of recipes, and the cheap ones are used daily by older people.
Zhu Wentian continued to play with his friends, looking at the planting of bamboo fungus and the mixing and burning of glass materials.
The glass kiln made of refractory bricks is different from other kilns in that it needs a pool to contain the glass liquid when it appears.
In the absence of testing equipment, Zhu Wentian prepared the proportions of materials one by one, recorded them, and then tested them in groups when the kiln was ready for use.
He wants to use transparent glass. The fewer impurities the better. If there are bubbles, it is easier to deal with and just stir.
If secondary bubbles occur, the village medicine shop has medicine, arsenic, and white ones.
In addition, potassium nitrate obtained by reacting saltpeter soil with plant ash is a good glass clarifier when used together.
While he was playing with his friends, the ship carrying things passed around other ships and arrived in Nanjing.
Today the speed is accelerated, there is a special letter, I don’t know what the content is, but it is urgent anyway.
Lao Yatang ignored it for now. One of Zhu Taisan and Zhu Taisi ran away holding the book and the question book, while the other held the letter in his arms.
